Affability Is the Customary Packaging of Falsehood

Affability Is the Customary Packaging of Falsehood

“He is so cool, huh?” Oh, very very nice! Sweet! And the father of lies knows how much one gets from this venerable quality… But there it is: social relations require masks, and affability is the customary packaging of falsehood. I say and do not hesitate: sincerity looks terrible! For is it possible to have any appreciation of social life, knowing it to be a great theatre? Is it possible to smile in response to the smile whose motivation we know? Is it possible not to judge affability as an almost always detestable manifestation? Rhetorical questions, for the answers already count good centuries…

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